I wonder if the same can be said within China?
It's opaque workings still concern civil libertarians tremendously. There's 50,000 on the list. That seems excesive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_cr...
> Among the complaints about the No Fly List is the use of credit reports in calculating the risk score. In response to the controversy, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials said in 2005 that they would not use credit scores to determine passengers' risk score and that they would comply with all rights guaranteed by the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution.
It used to be a feature; they turned it off (reportedly). How hard would it be for them to silently re-enable it? How hard would it be to factor in facet Y which correlates with facet X (credit score)?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_...
Those “share” buttons on web sites allow the big aggregators to connect accounts on various sites.